Feeling much better.

Just finished my first week of work. It is nice knowing you are owed £270.

I was still apprehensive before work started, not particularly about the idea of work, just if I was completely hopeless at what I was instructed to do, or if the factory blows up, or something happening basically resulting in me not getting paid. I'll tell you something though, it is very hard work. Put a long story short, I was thrown in at the deep end with all sorts of complicated paperwork and fast machinery pumping out an envelope every .25 of a second. (actual figure) You're on your feet in the same place for 8 hours, and have to find someone to take over if you need the bog. Hectic shit.

The saving grace is the people. They are fucking brilliant. There is not one sentence that is said where you don't hear 'fuck', 'cunt' or 'bastard'. When I came I had the 'so, you a student?' question along with few dirty looks, but I slotted right in after being myself (swearing, then) and not quitting after day 1 which is what they said they expected many people to do. So yeah, that is good.

Poker wise, still quite miserable online-wise, but went last saturday to a tournament at a different casino, and it was brilliant. Came 7th out of 40 so no cashes which was a shame, but it was poker. Actual poker. It was £10 entry, one rebuy one addon within an hour which was perfect in my opinion. starting stack 3k with blinds of 50/100.

The first table was quite good. Had a guy to my right whose name I remember Ftbling every time when I checked online, and who won some event in Edinburgh he was saying. The guy two to my right satellited into a UK poker tour event, but looked shit tbh, and the bloke 3 to my right who was a fat guy with a lot of jewellery and a lot to say, was again quite good, reciting his various favourite pots etc...the Sam Wong of the table shall we say :). Why they were in a £10 rebuy at a bradford casino I'll never know. Probably something to do with the league. He was quite offensive though, as I bluffed a few small pots off him and he started railing my play after I showed a few to see if he was tilty. So Earlier on I was chatting to a guy who plays 25NL on party who said he won 8k on a bad beat jackpot (cunt!) and then said that he plays really tight (no, actually), and then God put him to my left. Raisy Raisy.

Anyways, stayed on 3k for the first hour, and there was one good pot where I felt I was in the zone. Blinds 100/200. Fat guy limps UTG, I raise to 700 with AKo, and then another absolute rock raised to 2100. Fat guy folds. I said to the fat guy, 'you have tens or something,' and then said to the other lad 'I think the best I'm hoping for is a race, are you gonna show me Kings?' I then folded face up, and yep, they both showed melons and Kings, which got me a lot of respect and the good guy to my left said, 'you're dangerous.' :D.

It must be just that the Durham guys are that good ;) , beacause I can never bloody repeat that up there!! And Matt stop getting an erection after reading that. Hehe, joking. So yeah, stayed on 6 K for the next hour or so, I got blinded down to about 6 BB and pushed with 44 after a guy raised with A10, and luckily I held up. An hour on the blinds were huge and I found myself with about the same amount of blinds, and called on 88 on the BB and ran into JJ, lost and then managed to win with A high, and then top pair on the next two all ins to put me back where I was. On the Ft pushed with k6s on the button into k 10 and I was out. Great time though, and managed to outlast the three 'pros' to my left which was nice. Off again tonight, ill post it up if there is anything interesting.

Hope all is well. xxxxxxxxx